African Customary Justice
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-14946-2 (ISBN)
Taking Botswana as a casestudy from in-depth fieldwork over a fifty-year period, the book shows, the ‘customary’ is robustly enduring, central to settling interpersonal disputes and constitutive of the local as well as the national public ethics. Customary law continues to be constitutionally protected, authorised by the country’s past as an authentic, viable legacy, from the British colonial period of indirect rule to the postcolonial state’s present development as a highly bureaucratised democracy. Along with a theoretical overview of the underlying issues for the anthropology and sociology of law, the book documents customary law as living law in the context of legal pluralism. It takes a legal realist approach and highlights the need to pay close attention to the lived experience of justice and its role in the production of legal subjectivities.
The book will be valuable to Africanists but also, more broadly, to social scientists, social historians and socio-legal scholars with interests in law and social change, public ethics and personal morality, and the intersection of politics and judicial decision making.
Pnina Werbner is Professor Emerita of Social Anthropology, Keele University, UK. She has published extensively on Law and Anthropology. Richard Werbner is Professor Emeritus in African Anthropology, Honorary Research Professor in Visual Anthropology, the University of Manchester, sometime Senior Post- Doctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Institution, Senior Fellow (National Humanities Center), Overseas Professor (National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka). He has recently given the Elliot P. Skinner Memorial Lecture for the Association for Africanist Anthropology, the Royal African Society Lecture, and the Jackman Lectures.
Introduction: Living Law, Public Ethics and Legal Pluralism
PART ONE: PUBLIC ETHICS AND LEGAL PLURALISM
Looking Back: Small Man Politics and the Rule of Law in a Tswapong Village
Tlholego: Nature, Culture and Destiny
The Oracular Court of Sedimo vs. the Customary Court
An Unburied Past: Chiefly Succession and the Politics of Memory
What’s in a Name? The Struggle for Identity in Statutory Courts
PART TWO: LEGAL SUBJECTIVITIES, ETHICS AND PLURALISM
Divorce as Process, Botswana Style: Customary Courts and Gender Activism
Adultery as Process, Botswana Style: Gender and Changing Customary Law
9. Inheritance as Turmoil: From Citizens’ Forum to Magisterial Justice
10. A Case of Insult: Emotions, Law and Witchcraft Accusations
11. A Moral Economy of Crime and the Proportionality of Punishment
12. Conclusion: Customary Law as Living Law, Legal Pluralism and Public Ethics
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.12.2021 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Cultural Diversity and Law |
| Zusatzinfo | 1 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 13 Halftones, black and white; 17 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 453 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-14946-9 / 1032149469 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-14946-2 / 9781032149462 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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